Volume 7, Issue 43
For one fleeting moment, Sunday morning, October 27th, the people of the United States were one in identity and purpose.
We should reflect on the emotion wrought in our unifying recognition of our military and special forces selflessly dedicated to carrying out the mission of the United States. We should take hope from the fact that, even in the midst of an impeachment inquiry of the President by Congress, partisanship was set aside in gratitude for what the United States had accomplished.
The national press, of course, began immediately to find fault in the President’s announcement of justice rendered for thousands who had been murdered by ISIS. “What did the President mean when he said U.S. forces have secured the oil fields?” Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat from New York and chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, when asked whether the President’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria had jeopardized the operation, went out of his way to say, let’s not forget what the United States accomplished today. A vicious terrorist had been eliminated from the scene. The U.S. military special forces and intelligence should be commended for their courageous acts. And he went further to say that the President of the United States should also be commended for having the will and courage to give the green light. It is quite a statement when opposition leadership must admonish the press on what is important to the American people.
Congressman Jeffries then went into a thorough and fair explanation of how the Democrats would proceed with their impeachment inquiry. He was unemotional in his analysis. Either the President has committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” or not. He thinks public hearings are necessary for the American people to be informed. In a sense, he supports the concept of letting the constitutional protocol between branches of government and differing ideological philosophies take their course.
It is not that impeachment is an abuse of power. It is that blind contempt, by self-serving intellects in philosophical condemnation of the United States, is an abuse of persuasion. There are two movements of the world demanding globalization and standardization of culture: Marxism and Islam. One is economic in purpose and indifferent to religion. The other is driven by religious purity and indifferent to economic systems. Both demand absolute control of society without any competing opposition.
The United States is seen by both movements as an enemy in that America does not require total government control over an individual or a system of services. The U.S. Constitution embodies the foundational principle that liberty and freedom are fundamental to society as defined by each individual and family. Marxism and Islam rely upon central control of government to maintain stability in society. The United States represents the concept that, in the multitude of decisions made freely by individuals, stability in society is realized.
This idea of world globalization in the constructs of “one type government fits all” began its modern experiment in 1917 at the conclusion of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles attempted to set borders on ancient areas of tribal culture in reorganizing the former Ottoman Empire. This experiment attempted to force ancient societies into Western style of government. Syria is such an ancient geo-tribal area. Syria has struggled with disparate warring tribal entities since its inception. New lines of border areas are now being drawn, this time with the influence of Russia, Turkey, and Iran.
It is important to understand that these ancient tribal cultures do not want to be westernized. Imposing structure and new sovereign alliances upon them will not work. What is appropriate is to enforce rules of freedom and liberty that are salient to all human-governmental relationships. They are: due process, rule of law, independent courts, free press, and transparency. These five simple axioms are the foundation of honorable relationships between society and government.
As world governments approach this new phase in world history of establishing sovereign relationships, it is ironical that the one government that not only encompasses the said axioms, but pursues them every day in policy, is the one most often under attack by the intelligentsia. The United States is the one country constantly under attack, taking hit after hit, on everything from climate change to freedom of state from religion (rather than freedom of religion from the state). There are Members of Congress who are beyond partisan in their rhetoric. They actually imply that the United States is the cause of the world’s problems.
Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., were two great Americans who spoke to the vision that America had the potential to become. They believed that America was ordained to reach its destiny. They both encouraged Americans to continue the journey toward the vision of liberty and freedom for all. They had faith that America could realize her promise for the world. These two men understood that America represented what was good in the culmination of experiments of government in world history. It is not by coincidence that both men lived and died for racial equality.
Today, more than ever, America needs men and women who see the potential of America and who will not condemn her simply for the fact that she has not yet completed her calling.
In this age of restructuring world order, geographically, economically and culturally, a determination must be made on what principle to trust. Totalitarian governments and systems trust standardization of society that can only be successfully administered by force and subjugation.
Governments committed to freedom and liberty trust in the diversity of society. Individuals making proper decisions for themselves in pursuit of happiness seek a destiny they instinctively desire. In their collective wisdom, society advances.
Conflicts in globalization are caused by bureaucrats, even well-meaning ones, who set rules, boundaries and regulations irrationally. Peaceful globalism is the result of freedom administered universally as the goal of government, respecting liberty.
Globalism, bound by individual freedom, must be the goal of the new order.
The tenor of globalism should be the American way of life. The entire world applauds America’s actions in confronting ISIS. If every American would reflect on the values that America protects for the world, that fleeting moment last Sunday of unity and purpose could be extended indefinitely. When the ideals of Lincoln’s and King’s vision of America’s promise is the vision of every American’s hope, our national identity is reset.
Ask the people of northern Syria what they think about American society. They will agree there is nothing wrong with the American way of life.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?